Summary: Datacenter-Scale Network Research on FPGAs
Zhangxi Tan
Computer Science Division
UC Berkeley, CA
xtan@eecs.berkeley.edu
Krste Asanovi´c
Computer Science Division
UC Berkeley, CA
krste@eecs.berkeley.edu
David Patterson
Computer Science Division
UC Berkeley, CA
pattrsn@eecs.berkeley.edu
ABSTRACT
We describe an FPGA-based datacenter network simulator
to allow researchers to rapidly experiment with O(10, 000)
node datacenter network architectures. We configure the
FPGA hardware to implement abstract models of key dat-
acenter building blocks including servers and all levels of
switches. We discuss design and implementation issues of

Source: Asanovic, Krste - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory & Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences